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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Boletobiinae » Phytometrini » Ommatochila

Genus Ommatochila

Classification · Numbers · Size · Range · Season · Internet References
Ommatochila mundula - Hodges #8489? - Ommatochila mundula Ommatochila Moth - Hodges #8489 - Ommatochila mundula Ommatochila Moth - Hodges #8489 - Ommatochila mundula 8489 Ommatochila Moth ?? - Ommatochila mundula Ommatochila mundula? - Ommatochila mundula No. 345 Ommatochila mundula? - Ommatochila mundula Ommatochila mundula #8489 - Ommatochila mundula? - Ommatochila mundula
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Noctuoidea (Owlet Moths and kin)
Family Erebidae
Subfamily Boletobiinae
Tribe Phytometrini
Genus Ommatochila
Numbers
1 species in North America listed at All-Leps
Size
wingspan 12-20 mm
Range
southern United States, south to Argentina
Internet records from Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas
Season
adults fly in August and September
Internet References
live adult image by Mark de Silva (Moth Photographers Group)
pinned adult image by Matthew Barnes (Moths of the Grenadines)
pinned adult image by Matthew Barnes (Moths of Belize)
description and distribution (Yale U., Connecticut)
presence in Louisiana; list (Yale U., Connecticut)
presence in Kentucky; county map and dates (Jeffrey Marcus, Western Kentucky U.)
presence in Texas; list (James Gillaspy, U. of Texas)
presence in Georgia; list plus location and date [search on "Ommatochila"] (Lepidopterists Society Season Summary, U. of Florida)
presence in Florida; list (John Heppner, Florida State Collection of Arthropods)
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 28 August, 2007 - 7:47pm

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